A Listowel man claimed over €35,000 in benefits while employed as “a steel fixer” working six days a week in the construction industry in the UK, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told.

A garda believed she would be choked to death when a “drunken” high-ranking British navy officer suddenly attacked her, the High Court has heard.

A woman’s sleeping tablets were still being picked up free at the chemist on her medical card more than three weeks after she died, it emerged at Cork District Court.

A man who fell into a coma in garda custody and later died had suffered a head injury prior to his arrest.